Pbocess fob pbessing and packing manufacttjbed tobacco



' H. P. TAYLOR PROCESS FOR PRESSING AND PACKING MANUFACTURED TQBAGCO P 1931- Original Filed Jan. 11, 1929 F v Jwumtw Reissued Sept. 1, 19 31 PATENT OFFICE HENRY P. TAYLOR, OF WINSTON-SALEM, NOB-TH CAROLINA PROCESS FOR PRESSING AND PACKING MANUFACTURED TOBACCO Original No. 1,720,015, dated July 9, 1929, Serial No. 331,768, filed January 11, 1929. Application for reissue filed June 26, 1981.

An object of my invention is to provide means for packing and pressing plug and twist tobacco in such a manner as to prevent the outer layer of the caddies and boxes from having a slick appearance due to coming in contact with the head members of the caddy or box.

' Another object of my invention is to provide the process of pressing layers of unpressed or partially pressed plugs or twists of manufactured tobacco in presses and placing a dummy layer of fibrous material between the tobacco and the head members of the presses and pressing the dummy layers and tobacco at one operation, said dummy layers being resilient and approaching the 'sponginess and resiliency of plugs of tobacco so that such resilient dummy layers will impress their surfaces on the surfaces a of the outer plugs of tobacco and in turn the outer plugs of tobacco will impress their surfaces on the dummy layers and then, when the tobacco isthus pressed, the whole block of tobacco together with the dummy 3 layers is taken out as a whole and laced in a caddy and sealed wit-h top an bottom members and thus the entire block of tobacco is covered with a rough and ready finish, and when the tobacco is unpacked for sale andthe dummy layer removed the end plugs will have the appearance of middle plugs and will have no slick appearance, but will have a rough and ready outer surface and in this way the loss which arises from the end plugs of tobacco is eliminated, and such plugs are sold as first grade tobacco without loss to the retailer.

Some of the objects of my invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds when taken in con nection with the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in crosssection of a tobacco press, showing my resilicut pad in use;

Serial No. 547,169.

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view through a box I or caddy of tobacco showing the pressed mass of tobacco and the fibrous dumpacking tobacco, after the same has been pressed with the tobacco.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numerals 10 and 11 indicate the supports for a tobacco press compartment 12, which compartment 12 has the heads 13 and 14 and in many instances the portion 13 is stationary with the portion 14 being compressed or vice versa.

The reference numeral 15 indicates the plugs of tobacco and reference characters 16 and 17 indicate the fibrous or dumm layers of materialwhich are made to t the inside of the press and are slightly larger than the press so that when the tobacco is placed in the press with the dummy layers 16 and 17 at each end thereof and pressure is applied the dummy layers 16 and 17 will bulge slightly and form the points 18 and 19 which prevents the squirting or leaking of the press under the enormous pressure which is applied in pressing tobacco.

When the tobacco is thus pressed with the dumm layers of material 16 and 17 at each end 0 the compressed mass the entire mass of plugs and dummy layers are taken out of the press and placed in the caddy or box 20 with the bottom member 21 therein being held in bythe strips 22 and then pressure is applied to the tobacco in the caddy and the head member 23 is securely fastened in position by the strips 24 and thus the tobacco is packed in the form in which it comes from the press with the'dummy layers being attached to the tobacco.

If necessary I can put a sheet of parafiin paper or other suitable material between the dumm layers and the tobacco to keep the fibers rom the dummy layers 16 and 17 from becoming embedded in the outer surfaces of the end plugs of tobacco.

These dummy layers 17 and 16 are made of comminuted fibrous material and in some in manna stances this is made of a vegetable material and is made with thick and thin s ts ver similar to a plug of tobacco which his thic and thin spots therein and when the plugs of I tobacco or the dummy layers are laced authq'n under ree t use these places cause andlroa yaappelnaiile of the plugs of tobacco or the dummy layers.

When the tobacco is pressed in the manner described the'fl'dclt slid pieces in the tobacco will impress certain irregularities on the dummy Myers and the thick and thin places in the dummy layers will impress certain irregularities on theaouter surfaces of the end plugs of tobzazcgkedln ot'lbizfia words the dummyay'ers'mte to veinte same amnnier as plugs of tobacco theonly difierence being that they are my allexpen me and when the tobacco; caddy or box 15 opened u these dummy layers are, discarded 'l iliif totiamb is taken train the box wl'n'chz'hls the end plugs therbof; with. the rough and ready tppearanee and which enables the retailer to sell these plugs as first class plugs of tobhe'cb which they really are. There is no: deception of the consumer because he receives a plugof tobacco which is just as as the in the central portion of "thecaddy. -I- V .Thejdunimy layer: it; and 17 being between the plugs of tobacco 151ml the head membet-sot the press13 and 14- andthehead memhbrsflland-QS ofthe caddy or box rece ve, themselves; ontheir outer surfaces the slick or \mnaturil-finiehot the head-membersof 'theipress and theheadmembers of thecaddfy orbox and *inthie way! the dummy layers thordughlyiprotect, at all them, the outer surfaces of. the end or outs de plugs 'of tobacco from having a selick or unnatural finish-impa'rt'ad'to-them by the head "of g prebsor thehndmelnbersofthe caddy m x l v y I I In the drawing! and specification l have set its-th n preieued'embodiment'of-my invention, and although specific terms cream- V ployedflhey are used in a .;generic and do menptive seneeonlymnd not 'forpurpoees'of limitdtion 'the seope'of my in'yention being setlforth. in the-appendingclaims.

theterm dummy layer, used' in this seme ie meant any-suitablelayer of materialotherthantobecco. v w Whatfielaim is: I

a 1. o a; i haeeo which M [ml-8813f pieces of tobacco in a ress-iwith duinmy iayers'difibvdus mate Between the press ahead: andth'e'tobaceoandapeeesing the-toshamans the layees .atthe same W time then placing the .anpreseed-a fiwrth ers-in'a 'X'ond' 'e w box b placingheadst: chmim Pmceasoi i "bacco whichcomprises placing plug and twist 'nessof pl maintain dummy layers under compression.

:plugs of tobacco in a press. and compressing the series then placing the compressed mass isms bacco in a press with dummy la ers of fibrous material more elastic than to acco between the press heads and the tobacco and pressing the tobacco and the dummy layers at the same time, then placing the compressed tobacco with the same dummy layers in a box and sealing the box by placing head members in said box.

3. The process of pressing and packing totobacco in a ress with dummy layers of fibrous materia' more elastic than the tobacco and haying portions oi unequal densit between the press heads and the tobacco an pressing the tobacco and the dummy layers at the same time then placing the compressed tobaoco'with the same-dummy layers in a box and sealing-the head members intosaid box.

4. The process of packing and pressing plug tobacco which comprises com plugs of tobacco in supemimposed layers between dummy layers of material having, resilience and sponginess substantially similar to the resilience and sponginess of plug toheme, and sealing the compressed mass of, plugs and dummy layers under compression in a caddy. i

:5. The process of packing and. pressing y g tobacco which 'comprisescompresai in. acaddy :plugs of tobacco inauper-lm layers between dummy layers 'of material having resilience and sponginem substantially similar to the resilience and spongitobacco, andsealing the-caddy-to e compressed mass of plugs:and 11m "6.7That roeess of packing pl tobacco which consists in placing dummy yers of fibrousmaterial over the exposed facesof'the end plugs of a mass of super-imposed lugs epplyingipmssure to mid lugs and runs -.layers in a caddy, andsealingaaid-meas in-Vthe I cagd andunder-such pressure. he 4 process of pressing and packing tobaceo'which comprises placing su'perdmposd m0 of=tobacco in a caddy with dummylayersof substantially-the same resilience as the 10- beeco plugs between the Itobeeco and \the head and'bottom members of the caddy, and .115

sealing the caddy while thepads anditobeeco are underipressure.

8. That 'process'of packing plug tobacco which comprises compressing-layers of plug 5 5w tobacco ina caddy with dummy pads ofcmminuted fibrous material having thick and thin spots therein between the tobacco and theends-ofthe caddy. I

- .iln testimony whereof, I have signed my 125 1 name to this specification.

HENRY P. TAYLOR. 

